When I was young preparing for the entrance exam to a med school, I was attending to a bible class. I got an acquaintance with an elementary school teacher there. We were talking on the way from the class place to the station nearby after the class was over. I Pne time, she confessed to me that she had had a few patients with schizophernia at her family, her mother and a younger brother. Her family seemed to be heavily inherited with that psychiatric illness. Even though I have read a few books on psychiatry those days, like Minkovsky or Jaspers, particularly interested in that field of medicine, I have known little about the reality to be a family member of that illness. It took me years to understand what it had meant. When she told me about that, she never stopped introvertdly keeping smile on her face. In the end of that conversation, she mentioned about the Gospel in Matthew and told me she had been living in the way this sacred words indicated.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Having lived half a century after that episode, this words still stay in my mind. More and more becoming a relief in the daily life. Even surrounded with serious issues, private or social, this could be a real consolation to me. In that situation, I always recall of the conversation with her on the way to the railway station. If she is doing well, she must be over eighty years of age. How has she lived the past half a century?
Tomorrow will worry about itself. It is a real relief and tells us, not abondoning the reality, we should live the day as if the last day on earth, I believe.
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